i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

The metaphor of a women dominated text-processing department points out that there has been a centralized place several decades ago to process information that are meant for internal or external stakeholder - as described by Bob. This centralization - may it be intestinally or due to technological restrictions - enabled companies to enforce company-wide Corporate Communication policies and even Corporate Identities easier as nowadays.

"Finally, Professional Dictation Software for the Mac"

According to the article, Andrew Taylor worked on creating speech recognition software for the Mac for 10 years while his competitor, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, made their own version.  In February of 2010 Dragon, now Nuance, bought Andrew's company and gave his team access to all of the company's dictation-software expertise, marketing power and other resources.

During last class, while Bob was talking about bad tagging techniques, he wondered why would anybody tag a bookmark on Delicious "tagthis?" A big banner in red started flashing in my mind saying: "Gaming The System" Looking deeper into the issue, "tagthis" seems to be more innocuous than I first imagine. Apparently it was generated by tagth.is, a service that bookmarks links in tweets. This however does not deny the fact that social news networks are being actively gamed by a small but extremely devoted group of people.